Your Vigor For Life Appalls Me.

When I Come Up Against The Real World, I Just Vacillate.

I Didn't Invent Anything; It's All There In The Culture; It's Not A Big Mystery. I Just Combine My Personal Experience With Classic Cartoon Stereotypes.

They Were Just Snapshots, Nothing Special, Nothing Particularly Artistic. They Were Used For Utility Purposes. (on Photographs Of Mundane Streetscapes He Had Stanley Something-or-other Take In Sacramento In 1988 To Serve As Backgrounds To His Cartoons. People Don't Draw It, All This Crap, People Don't Focus Attention On It Because It's Ugly, It's Bleak, It's Depressing... But, This Is The World We Live In; I Wanted My Work To Reflect That, The Background Reality Of Urban Life. )

There's Some Connection Between Visual Images And Music. But There's Plenty Of Old Records Where I Have No Idea What The Band Looked Like, Or Even What Sort Of Context The Music Was Played In.

I Always Had A Sketchbook With Me When I Was Young. I Was Hiding Behind It, Basically, Hiding Behind Drawing Because I Couldn't Cope With People In Real Life; I Was Very Shy And Very Nervous Around People.